Fastening device



Patented Jan. 3, 1928.

UNITED STATES STERLING, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, .-ASSIGNOR TO WESTERN HAIRGOODS CO., OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

BERNARD A.

1,654,560 PATENT OFFICE.

` f FAs'rnNiING DEVICE.

`"Application filed December 17, 1926. Serial No. 155,366.'

This invention relates to fastening devices, more particularly tofastening devices for use with hair dressing attachments, and p thelike,` and its objects are the provision of a generally improved andsimplified device that maybe economically produced and which willconform to the head and accommodate itselfv to and firn'ilyV grip`differentamounts of hair strands.

The device is adapted to be quickly and conveniently secured in placeand removed and is adapted to be worn without discomfort to the head.

yThe invention is illustrated in the acconr panying drawing, in which:

Figure llis an enlarged back or rear elevational view of a deviceembodying the present invention, showing a hair piece attached thereto;2U Figure 2 is a frontelevationa-l view of the f fastening device;

Figure 3 is a side elevational View;

Figure 4 is a transverse section taken on the line 4 -4 of Figure 1;

Figure 5 is a fragmentary longitudinal section taken on the line 5-5 ofFigure l;

and

Figure `6 is a front elevational view of the prong member.

Referring to the drawing, the embodiment of the invention showncomprises a base 5 having a prong member 6 pivoted to one end of thebase and adapted to be sprung into and out of engagement with a catch 7on the base.

The base 5 may becof suitable sheet metal and is preferably curved asshown at 8 in Figure 3 to conform to the head. As it is formed the base5 has a pair of tabs 10 separated centrally and extending longitudinally-from opposite sides of one end of the base as shown in dotted lines inFigure 2. These tabs 10 are rolled back and form pivot knuckles 12(Figures 1 and 3) for the prong member 6.

The front or prong side of the base 5 has a hump 14 extendinglongitudinally of the base and centrally between the opposite sidesthereof. This hump 11i may be pressed up from the back side of thebase.` It cooperates with the prong 6 and, in addition, reenforces thebase 5 and imparts a desired rigidity thereto against being bent ordeformed from its desired curvature.

Also centrally disposed between the opposite sides of the base 5 andlongitudinally A beyond the end of the hump 14 and in alignmenttherewith isvthe catch 7 This catch 7 is inthe form of afstud or buttonprojecting at substantially right angles from the front vside of thebase 5 and provided with an annular groove 16 forming a head 18 past`which and into and from the groove V1G the prong 6 is adapted to besprung.

The catch 7 may be riveted or otherwise suitably secured to the base 5.

Theprong 6 is also curved to conform to the head and 'is preferablyformedof suitable spring wire looped or doubled back into'somewhatgenerally U formation with the free ends of the wire disposed at one endof the prong and turned laterally at 20. The prong 6 lis contracted near`one end at 21 between the laterally turned ends 2O and the generallyparallel sides 22 and near its opposite endl the sides v22 may becontracted at 23' for cooperation with the catch 7. The prong Gmay beadditionally contracted outwardly of the contracted catch engagingportion 23- or it maybe otherwise formed to provide a finger piece 24which may be conveniently grasped to spring the prong into and out ofengagement with the catch 7.

The laterally turned ends 20 of the prong 6 fit in the knuckles 12 andpivotally mount one end of the prong upon the base 5. AThe sides of theprong 6 may be bound to'- gether at the contracted portion 21 by a crosspiece 26 looped at its opposite end about the sides of the prong andrigidly pressed thereon to hold the sides against springing together atthe pivot and the laterally turned ends 20 against displacement from theknuckles 12.

Fitting over and reenforcing the side `portions 22 of the prong 6 is asleeve 30 in the form of a short length of tubing of relative ly toughrubber orV other material preferably of resilient and antislipcharacter. The sleeve or tube 30 is drawn over the side portions 22 ofthe prong from the contracted end'24L and is tensioned thereby so thatits resiliency draws the side portions 22 and the contracted'portions 23togetherr so that the contracted portions 23 will not pass over the head18 of the catch 7 without the sides of the prong spreading apart. Thehead 18 is preferably rounded at 32 to engage between and spread thecontracted sides 23 as the prong is closed toward the spo base 5, andthen astlie contracted side portions 23 pass over the head 18 they areconracted by the rubber tube and by their own springiness into thegroove 16 and the prong is thereby locked in closed positionr againstthe base 5. v

The side portions 22 ot the prong G straddle the hump 14 which, when theprong is closed, presses against the band or sleeveBO. 'l1 he sleeve 30,because o't its resilient charactor, gives or yields to the humpV 14e,so that'diiiferent amounts ot hair strands may be accommodated betweenthe base 5 and the prong` `(i, and the device will accomino# date itselfthereto and grip a Vfew or relatively, large number of strands of hairequally aswell. l

In use the device Vis inserted up into the hair with the back sidepresented to the head and the prong opened to permit a. mass of hairstrands to pass between the base 5 and the prong (i. The prong is thenswung into closed position and the contracted side portions 23 aresprung over the head 18 of the catch lor button 7 and into the groove1G, whereupon v,the freer end ot the prong is locked to the base withthe strands of hair firmly clamped between the prong and the base. l i'In addition to reentorcino, and drawing the'vsides ot theprong together,therband or' rubber sleeve 30, because of its yieldable and anti-slipcharacter, binds the strands of hair irmly and positively and preventsaccidentalfslipping of ther device after it is attached to th'evhair.

While the device may, of course, be em. ployed wherever founddesirable,` it is par` ticularly:adaptedi'for attaching hair pieces uponthe head and to the natural hair of the user. For this purpose the base5 has longiti'idinal rows of apertures 38 on opposite sides lot thehiimp1 4. and the catch 7 through which the Vwetted end of the hairpiece l()may be secured to the base 5, as by stitching 4t2' pas ing through theapertures `38 and p stitched tothe adj acent'end of the hair piece.

'lt is to be understood that in actual practice in attaching a hairpiece, or the like, the device is not as large as illustrated, thec-xi'ilai'geiiient Vin the drawing being merely to claritytl'ievdisclosui'e.

Thedevice may be arranged crosswise of thel end ot the hair piece 40, asshown, or

otherwise as desired.

Fiiitlierinore, the contracted portion :23 of the prongmeinber 6 may beadapted to pass 'freely over the catch 7, until the sleeve 30 is placedover the prong and the sides of the prong may be contracted by thesleeve-30 when it is placed thereon, so that the portion Lesa-,seo

23 is thereafter sprung over and from the catch 7.l

1 claim zn 1. As an article of manu-facture, a tasteningdevicefcomprising a base member, a catch on said base member, a hump onsaid base member, a prong plvoted on said base memloer and having a pairot side portions adapted to stia'dd'le said hump and engageable withsaid catch, and a single resilient sleeve embracing both side portionsof the prong along said hump for yieldable cooperation with the humpcentrally'between the lside portions of the prong.

prong along the hump and between the con-p tracted catch engaging andlaterally turned pivoted portions of the prong for yieldable cooperationwith the hump' centrally between the sides of the prong.

3. is an article of manufacture, a fastening device `comprising a basemember, abutton catch' on said base member having a head andreducedbetween the head andthe base member, `a hump on said base member, a wireprong doubled Aback and pivoted on said hase member `at its tree ends,said prong having side portions" adapted to straddle said hump andcontracted outwardly Aof said humpstraddling portions to be sprung overand from the head of said catch, and a rub# ber sleeve embracing bothside portions ot the prong alongA the hump,`said sleeve opposinglspreading of the catch engaging portions of the prong` and cooperatingwith said hump to bind the device upon the strands of hair.

As' an article o't manufacture, a tastening 'device comprising a basenien'iber, `a catch on said hase member, a hump on said base iiieinbei,a prong pivoted on said base member and having a pair ot side portionsadapted to straddle'said hump and engage-r able outwardly ot said humpwith said catch and af single resilient sleeve eiiibiaeing both sideportions ot said prong for yieldable cooperation with the humptherebetween and opposing spreading ot said side portions.

In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name this 13th day ofDecember, 1926.

'BERNARD A. STERLING.

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